It was made by Lauri Ditunno of Cake Alchemy, and Julie T. was the first of many to send it in.

I find this one particularly cool because I think that web was made using a new flexible icing product I saw at last year's ICES convention. You pipe it out as a runny icing, but once it dries it's like an edible rubber - you can pick it up, stretch it, etc. John and I had some fun at the product table playing with the stuff, but this is the first professional cake I've seen using it - assuming that's what it is, of course.

Sorry, sorry - geek out time over. Next!

I'm an art lover, so you know I have to feature at least one Day of the Dead cake:

Looove the colors! This was Janet S.'s wedding cake, and it was made by Kathy of Calamity Cakes.

Check out this dark beauty:

It took me a second to realize, but those tiers are actually coffin-shaped! See, I love that this is such a unique, gothically-inspired cake without being in-your-face. Also, this just might be my favorite Day of the Dead inspired topper ever:

And yes, it was custom-made: Carrie, the bride, wore a red gown and has purple and red hair. [sing-song voice] Gor-geous!!

This was submitted anonymously, but Mistress Carrie (she's a DJ for WAAF in Boston) was kind enough to e-mail me recently with more details. The cake was made by Something Sweet by Michelle, and the custom topper by Skellramics.

Here's another red, black & white gem:

Sabrina found it here, and it's made by Rosebud Bakery. Thanks to all of you in the comments who helped track it down!

And you know I always save my favorite for last, right? Here ya go:

Honestly, I think I'm in love with this cake. Who knew a skull topper with a spider on it could be that adorable? And I love the soft colors, the airbrushing, the purplish black roses - it's really all quite exquisite. What's even better is that this was made by the author of the blog Pumpkin And Spice for her advanced cakes class - she's still in culinary school! Many thanks to Meghan L. for finding it.

For the Amazing Wedding Cakes cake - you are correct that is the icing that she used to make the web. I emailed her and asked and she was so kind to email me back! how cool is that!! We had a debate about it over at Cake Central when the show first aired.

Honestly? I'd spend a thou on a cake like one of those. How fun. But then I'm weird that way. I almost got married on Halloween until my better sense made me wait a day. Better to be with the Saints than the Satans.

Tried to help you with the cake site in Spanish--but it's in Portuguese. From what I can understand, though, there isn't a mention of the source of the cake. I think they were submitted photos from someone who was responding to an earlier post on that site.

But I could be wrong... because I speak Spanish, and used it to make educated guesses on the Portuguese.

The blog in Portuguese basically says that they posted a previous post about a gothic wedding (of Billy Martin and Linzi Williamson) but someone else posted a comment that that wedding wasn't nearly as gothic as hers. So the bloggers put together a post full of pictures of various different weddings, but they fail to cite where they got any of the pictures from, nor do they reference where the cake was from. You can find their previous post about Gothic weddings if you look on the right sidebar for November 2008 and scroll down to the 16th of November. They do include a cake, though not nearly as "undead" as any you featured here!

I'm so flattered that my cake's included in Sweet Sundays! (Better than the other days of the week!)

For our cakes class, we were allowed to choose our own theme. Since I love Halloween, I decided to do a Goth wedding cake. I figured once I was out in the industry, I'd be making a lot of traditional cakes, so I wanted to do something more unusual for class.

Thw Amazing Wedding Cakes cake isn't the cake they made on the show. It was the inspiration cake for the cake they made. The cake on the show was made by the Cake Atelier you can see the cake made on the show at this site:

http://www.wetv.com/amazing-wedding-cakes/cake-designer-bios/the-cake-atelier and then click on the link for slideshow. It's the 12th cake.

Thanks for such a great site! I look forward to reading the new post every day!!!

Absolutely love the cakes. If I knew such wonderful cake makers existed I would've had a similar cake for my wedding long ago. But, I had to settle for black roses :)

To the knitter who commented earlier, everyone has their likes and dislikes. Honestly I love the macabre cakes, and I for one would puke if I had to wear a cable knitted sweater. Of course if you knitted some skulls on it I might not :P

See, if you're going to be "unique" about your wedding (just like the millions of other goths out there), this is the way to do it--these cakes are pleasing to look at, skillfully done, and they are perfectly appetizing. Just because doves and angels isn't your style doesn't mean the only other option is to use tongues and eyeballs.

Personally, I'd rather not have a wedding theme that reflects some fleeting interest I had at the time--I'd want something that's going to be meaningful (and not embarrassing) for the rest of my life. Like someone said the other day, you might think you're being hip and unique today, but God help you when you have to show your wedding photos to your kids, grandkids and possibly great-grandkids.

I think the first "wreck" from Thursday's post was well done and could have been included in today's post. I especially liked the extra touch of using dried rose petals to add to the dead theme of the cake.

I am also getting tired of the whimsically misshapen tiers like in the Tim Burton cake today. The idea was cute at first, but it seems to be a bit too trendy and overused now.

This is my favorite Sunday Sweets ever! I knew there would be some good Day of the Dead cakes. I was talking to a friend a few weeks ago and I mentioned that (if) I get married, I would like Day of the Dead skull toppers for the bride and groom. From behind me, my boyfriend chimes in "Well, that's stupid". I told him he didn't have to be so offended by it, he wouldn't be there.

Can anyone tell me what the "rubbery icing" is? I'm a cake decorator and I recently booked a Halloween wedding cake for this year and they want a spiderweb on it. This would be perfect, but I've never even heard of it before!

Wow, those are gorgeous! Now *those* are how you do goth wedding cakes. I can't decide whether the first o fifth are my favourite. The Corpse Bride cake makes my inner Burton fangirl squee with joy, but that fifth one...my god, I almost want to get married *just* to have a cake like that!

To the knitter who posted-actually cable knit sweaters *always* make me want to throw up.

I was going to comment earlier that the first cake in the last installment of dead wrecks wasn't all that bad. Compared to *these* cakes, if it weren't a wedding cake, I'd still say it wasn't all that wrecktacular, but, yes, if it's a pro job (not by a friend in cake school, or whatever), the quality diminishes quickly in comparison.

The Corpse Bride cake would be equally lovely without Victor and Emily on it.

@Cody: You're not the only one bothered by the asymmetry of the 4th cake. I've seen tons of asymmetry that is done where it looks like it's "asymmetrically symmetrical" (if that makes any sense). That one? Not so much. It just looks sorta sloppy to me. I do think the color palette is really cool, though.

The "rubbery" icing product used by Lauri Ditunno is called Sugar Veil (www.sugarveil.com). It's a pretty good product: Essentially a royal icing mix with some gum additives (there are a few recipes floating around to make your own as well). I love to use it and it's fun to experiment with.

The Bare bones cake seems to be inspired and is almost identical tot he one the dead cook makes for Emily and Victor in the corpse bride movie. See here http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd59/staffordmanorhalloween/corpsebridecake.jpg

Oh my goodness! On that pretty coffin cake, it's a Grim Fandango cake topper! It's been a few years since I've played through the game, but I'm almost sure I remember there being a character who looked a lot like the groom there. The colors on that cake are just gorgeous too. I think I would be hard-pressed to not take that cake home as a pet, let alone eat it.

Oh, some of these cakes are perfect realizations of the gothic cakey images floating about in my head. Should I ever marry, I would love to have something like the coffin cake, as it's proof that a goth wedding cake can be both elegant and tasteful...and done in colors other than black and orange. These cakes are old-school goth elegance and whimsy in delightful, edible form.

word verification: bibli...what one uses to toast before digging into one of these cakes.

Can you tell me what the "rubber" icing is on the Cake Alchemy cake? I'd love to have the brand name to be able to use it. I saw her doing it on TV and didn't catch what the product was.Marsha~ Great Cake! of the Outer Banks www.greatcakes.net

Can you tell me what the "rubber" icing is on the Cake Alchemy cake? I'd love to have the brand name to be able to use it. I saw her doing it on TV and didn't catch what the product was.Marsha~ Great Cake! of the Outer Banks www.greatcakes.net

I have a correction to make for you - the first one is an obvious Corpse Bride cake due to the toppers, but the second one is as well! It's the cake the undead made in the movie for Vincent and Emily's wedding. :)

I was looking at past entries on this blog since I am a recent addict to your confection humor and when I saw the "bare bones" cake I recognized it...I often buy cakes from Craig's Cake Shop and had seen it on their website. I stopped in that same day for a cake and talked to one of the bakers (a fellow follower) and she said the customer had given them the sugar skulls and bones and requested they be placed on a "smooth traditional wedding cake". Just a little background of how the cake came to be. :)

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